Development

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and 3 local developers were rebuked with six out of seven candidates they supported defeated.

An appeals court battle about permitting authority for Florida projects that affect wetlands will not be resolved until late this year.

A U.S. district judge ruled that the federal government improperly shifted permitting authority to Florida for projects that affect wetlands.

Pinellas County is mostly built out. But new construction could expand by renewing older sites. The Urban Land Institute held its Florida Summit last weekend to explore what communities are doing to attract new businesses...

Supporters of Florida keeping permitting authority for projects that affect wetlands are trying a different tack: Put it in federal law.

Organizers plan to get the Right to Clean Water amendment on Florida's 2026 ballot instead. Plus: opposition to Bellmar development.

The Florida Panther is our state’s official animal and one of the most endangered mammals in the country. WMNF's Chris Young reports.

A couple is fighting a plan for thousands of new homes near their rural northeastern Sarasota County neighborhood.

More than 180 landowners have applied to a state-funded program designed to keep swaths of rural Florida from development.

The recent Sackett v EPA decision by the U.S. Supreme Court could have a major impact on wetlands across the country and in Florida.

A wide-ranging discussion about economic justice, the inequality resulting from the closing and repurposing of Just Elementary School serving predominantly Black communities. Neo-colonialism and the Black petis bourgeois who imitate white racist policies to the...

State officials could direct $100 million to protect 35,500 acres of ranchland for the growing Florida Wildlife Corridor.